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Notes about the Muster Rolls of Angus, Scotland
for the South African Boer War 1899 - 1900

Please read general notes about my lists.

There are TWO EDITIONS. The SECOND EDITION has more information, names, etc.

The following notes offer an explanation that this is not the only source for Boer War service names, there are more out there, I just haven't seen them, so it is a start for someone new at this.  Perhaps someone else can turn up more Angus lists. 

There are about 1200 entries, I have alpha sorted them.  Please do not depend on any of the spelling as the originals may vary.

• A Record & a Tribute - Published under the direction of Agnes Lindsay-Carnegie and Jane C.C. MacDonald

• Edited by J.B. Salmond, Arbroath, Scotland.  -  Brodie & Salmond, Printers & Publishers, 1900

• Public Library call number 941.31 E4S  -  LDS Family History Centre film number 1426108 (Likely to be the First Edition).

As at 10th March 2011.  The Webmaster is aware that an image copy of the SECOND EDITION of this book is currently available online at - http://www.archive.org/details/musterrollangus00brodgoog but original books may be available at booksellers and elsewhere. Beware of Internet sellers where you are provided with TEXT ONLY versions which are extremely poor value, lacking the images required. The original books are full of images, portraits, letters, musical score, etc.

3rd April 2011. The Webmaster has acquired a copy of the FIRST EDITION of this book and IMAGES (which includes hundreds of portraits) from it are now available on this website. Access to a copy of the SECOND EDITION has very kindly been made available from Angus Council Archives at Restenneth, near Forfar, so that the added information in that book can be made available and placed on this website. Check HERE or write to the Webmaster. (SAMPLE PAGE)

You can get a copy in, JPEG format, of each page. On many pages are 'thumbnail portraits' of several servicemen, or group shots. These pages have been scanned at high resolution. You can copy the complete page, then CROP the image of your chosen individual using your image application. From there, the resulting file can be printed to at least 7" x 5" in most cases giving a presentable quality family portrait. You can also add the relevant text to the photo. Please ask the Webmaster should you need further advice.

In 1988 I came across a film at the local LDS Family History Centre that contained the above book. While looking for any entries that might be in my family genealogy - I thought this might be a useful list to copy out.  The resulting information is my transcription from the printed book.  As always, whenever you come across a "transcription" please check the original source.  There is always a possibility of error and omission of detail.  Every care was taken to make a faithful transcription but there is always room for error.

Once I had completed the transcription I felt there must be more muster lists as the people I was looking for, Charles Leonard and James Bush, did not appear in this book.  To-date I have not found any further printed lists of this nature.  If you know of any, please email the details to the me - see my index page.

I have given both the Public Library system call number and the LDS Family History Centre film number for ease of obtaining the original on loan from either facility.

Surname - Christian Name - Status in Book - Address - Portrait Page

I first mention portraits beginning page 138 of my transcription list.

The following reply was sent to a U.S. correspondent of the webmaster regarding an ancestor - you may wish to contact the parties mentioned if you are seeking assistance.

Hello, Thank you for your e-mail. Driver 76745 James Hagan, 38th Battery Royal Field Artillery killed in action 20-09-1901 at Quaggafontein. Quaggafontein is a farm in the Orange Free State 23km south-east of Zastron. A camp here was overrun by a commando led by Chief-Commandant PH Kritzinger. Fourty-eight British soldiers were killed, mostly of Lovett's Scouts. The 38th Battery lost 7 killed and 5 wounded. You may be able to get a photograph of his grave by writing to jean.beater @ nationalmonuments.co.za He (your ancestor) is listed on the Royal Artillery Memorial in Hyde Park, London. I can supply you two photographs of this memorial; a general shot of the whole memorial and photo showing his name. Each print costs £2.00 plus postage, airmail to the USA is approximately £1.50. Regards, Meurig Jones Co-ordinator Anglo-Boer War Memorials Project www.vms.org.uk/abwmp ==================================

Read what the People's Journal, Dec 23, 1899, Dundee, Scotland
said about 'Dundee men killed, wounded and missing'.

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